Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent called for a halt on most of the CFPB's work. It could impact rules on overdraft fees, ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s X account appears to have gone offline after new acting director Russell Vought ...

The CFPB is funded independently through the Federal Reserve, but the CFPB director has the power to determine how much money ...

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau appears to be the next federal agency on Elon Musk’s Department of Government ...

Vought was an architect of Project 2025. He takes over at the consumer finance watchdog as Elon Musk's representatives gained ...

President Donald Trump's newly installed management and budget director Russell Vought took control of the U.S. Consumer ...

On Friday, the union representing CFPB employees said in a statement that the Department of Government Efficiency, run by billionaire Elon Musk, is now embedded within the CFPB. The union NTEU 335 ...

Bessent, a wealthy hedge fund manager, was already expected to be a business-friendly choice to lead the Treasury. Now he will lead the CFPB, the federal consumer watchdog, at least for a time. “I ...

In a letter released on Thursday, a coalition of 16 Democrats asked the department to explain what data associates of Elon Musk’s had scraped from the agency’s servers. By Zach Montague ...

Elon Musk's DOGE is reviewing Medicare and Medicaid for waste and fraud, gaining access to key HHS data systems. This live blog is now closed.

One of the people working with billionaire Elon Musk in his efforts to overhaul the U.S. government is a Berkeley-educated computer scientist who has boosted white supremacists and misogynists online.

Trump views Musk as doing the task he assigned him with, and benefits from letting someone else take the heat for drastic and controversial measures. The SGE designation, which has come under ...